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Americans revere the courage and sacrifice of our service men and women. To demonstrate a commitment to those who have worn the cloth of the nation, grateful community members volunteer at VA health care facilities across the country, including locations throughout the VA Maryland Health Care System. During National Salute to Veteran Patients Week (February 8-14, 2015), we invite Maryland residents to join us at the VA to honor the men and women who have served our nation in uniform. This annual salute to veteran patients, launched in 1978, gives every American a chance to thank veterans for our freedom. For the 27th consecutive year, the nationally syndicated column started by Ann...

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Americans revere the courage and sacrifice of our service men and women. To demonstrate a commitment to those who have worn the cloth of the nation, grateful community members volunteer at VA health care facilities across the country, including...

Carrie O'Connor thought she was a fairly healthy 35-year-old who went on daily jogs and ate well.
Then, more than a year ago, she suffered back-to-back heart attacks.
The first hit while she was treating herself to baubles at Smyth Jewelers in Timonium....

James Gandolfini, whose remarkable performance as mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's "The Sopranos" re-imagined the anti-hero for American television, is dead at 51 years of age.
The actor, who is believed to have died of a heart attack, was...

Tony Siragusa isn't the prettiest of men. The former Baltimore Raven played the thankless role of a 6-foot-3, 330-pound steel drum, crashing the line over and over, so teammates could sack the quarterback — and reap the glory.
But "Goose" was a...

With a reported $100 million price tag and a big-name star like Kevin Spacey, "House of Cards" looks like a drama series that should be headed for HBO or AMC.But the 13 one-hour episodes that start filming in Baltimore in March under the...

Everyone seems to be upset about the Emmys last night. And it's not just because of the bizarre inclusion of the singing Emmytones.It's what's being perceived as a big diss for HBO's "Boardwalk Empire." After winning a slew of technical awards...

Leave it to showrunner Vince Gilligan and his "Breaking Bad" writing team to kick off its beloved show's final season not with a new, even-scarier villain to replace Gus Fring (R.I.P.) but with a practical question: After finally...

In a battle of the television behemoths, it came down to Baltimore versus New Jersey.
Or was it street thugs versus the mafia?
Maybe was just Omar against Tony.
In any event, the website Vulture.com has had some fun recently, March Madness style,...

No network midseason show has generated more buzz than "The Following," which premieres Monday night on Fox.
There are three reasons for that:
First, Kevin Bacon is the star, and he's better than most network television actors. Here he plays...

When Chicago-born Freddy Rodriguez was offered a role in a 2012 pilot for hospital drama, he took the gig and just hoped for the best. But after NBC's "The Night Shift" finally began airing last summer, surprising critics with its strong...

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Families of the world, unite. It's safe to return to the television, together.
For years, television has been criticized by many for being too violent, too sex-obsessed, too adult. The official "family viewing hour" disappeared in 1977, and...

HBO has spent years looking for another hit like "The Sopranos," and it may have found it in "Game of Thrones."
Season 4 of the epic fantasy opened at 9 p.m. Sunday night averaging 6.6 million total viewers, according to Nielsen.
...

HBO has cut a deal to sell reruns of many of its hit shows to Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Instant Video platform.
Among the programs that will be made available on Amazon's Prime Instant Video streaming service are "The Sopranos," "Six...

It's not a surprise, but still good to hear: HBO has picked up "Game of Thrones" for two additional years.
The lavish and brutal fantasy series returned to a record audience for its fourth season premiere Sunday night, drawing 6.6 million...

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Diva Rule No. 3: Do these things as often as humanly possible.
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HBO is a great place to create a TV show — if you're a white guy.
So says a new report by Huffington Post TV critic Maureen Ryan, who argues that the premium cable channel — home of such acclaimed series as "True Detective," "Game of...

The subject is comedy. If it is not exactly true that it "can't get no respect," to quote the comic, it does get less than it deserves.
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The late Emmy Award-winning actor James Gandolfini will be presented with a posthumous tribute by Steve Buscemi at the 23rd Gotham Independent Film Awards.
The awards ceremony takes place Dec. 2 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
"We are...

James Gandolfini, the most important actor in the most influential television series of the last decade and a half, died suddenly Wednesday, in Italy. He was only 51, and though he had been a busy working actor -- in film and onstage as well as on TV --...